CHOPPER!! CHOPPER!! CHOPPER!! :D

And yet they only get Chopper quite a bit into the Grand Line.

Actually, Choppers only on the third island or something close. That's not that far

Might not seem that far story-wise, but they still have to go through Loguetown, Reverse Mountain/Laboon, Whiskey Peak, and Little Garden. If we said those four would take as long as the first four islands, Chopper might arrive within ~250 pages. More realistically, I think we're looking at closer to 500, using some of the slightly longer arcs as guidelines.

Still though, A-quadruple-plus for having made it this far, DT

Don't forget that filler arc with the Whisper Whisper girl.

Don't forget that filler arc with the Whisper Whisper girl. And a couple more movies.

You know, Chopper LOVES you.

Hey DT, I know you did the first OVA (Devil's Tower), but will you be doing the mini-features that accompanied the movies?

I'm mainly asking because of Jango. I haven't had enough Jango dancing in my life, lol

Eh... Maybe. Don't really have any ideas for those ones, though.

DT, are you going to include every storyline, or are you going to skip less important ones?

I'm going to try and include as much as I can. If I can't think of a way to use the less important ones, then I might skip it or have it mentioned as a one-off punchline or something like that.

I want to see a Baron Omatsuri arc!

NO, no, a thousand times no! If there is any, ANY characters DT should skip over, it would be that gods forsaken flower. I hate carnation lily with a passion hotter than a million stars. I admire you DT, and I love your work, but I honestly do not think you could make that terrifying abomination of an arc any less horrifying. Honestly, I don't think even DM(or was it GM?) would have created a monster like carnation lily back in her party-kill days.

I dunno, I kinda liked Lily. It's not so much that Lily was overpowered as it was that she decided to attack from out of his reach. Her attacks wouldn't have worked against a level 3 sorcerer. As a matter of fact, even a level 1 character could've blocked all of her attacks at least 1/day with the right feat (as funny as it is).
The best part about that arc was that Luffy got called out for being a retard: All of this could've been avoided if he'd paid more attention, but he didn't. Obviously, the movie couldn't go through with killing him, as much as he deserved it, but it's still the best one piece movie IMHO.

i don't remember much about this movie (been years since i watched the OP movies, probably have to rewatch them) but i clearly remember that it was not my favorite (not my least favorite either, mind you). did'nt found it bad, but it did'nt really felt like it.

from what i recall, that's the problem: Luffy is a idiot hero, but not a retard, if his crewmen start getting hijacked one by one, he WILL notice it.
He is also a very good judge of character, sure he can be fooled (like with the cp9 passing for simple artisan at water 7), but if something if just THAT OFF, you think he will realise sooner. So this movie just feel like a filler written arc, did'nt have the "One Piece vibe".

That's why i'd say that Strong World is the best movie. Nuff said, this is THE movie that feel like a actual OP arc (and a great one, with that). Even gold had less of that feel.

I was already curious about how the other crew members would get in. Secondary characters, that's a thing I did not think about.

My Guess:

Luke - Luffy and Robin
Nat - Nami and Brook
Phil - Ussop and Frankie
Cory - Zorro
GM - Sanji
Rika - Klabautermann and Chopper